Deregulation and privatization of the school systems are the symptoms of the transition from the era of ‘massification’ of education to the era of ‘merchandization’. This process is generated by a new relation between education and the needs of the globalized economy. Education is charged to supply the economy with a skilled and flexible labour force, to stimulate the markets by fashioning the consumer and to become itself a new, profitable market.
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